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Letters' Patent No. 76,064,datqcl Zlfmch 31, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN.. HO0P-SKIRTS.

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K`NOWALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That I7 DAVID H. FANNING, of the eityand county of Woreesteigand 'Commonwealth of Massachusetts, l hatceinvented eert-ain new and useful AImprovements in Hoop-Skirts gand I do herebydeelare that thefollowing' .is afull, clear,4 and exact deseription of the-same, reference b'einghad to the accompanying draivings'forming a part of thisspeciicntion, in which- 1 Figure'l represents a perspective view of se'mueh ofaA hoopskirt as is necessary to illustrate my present improvements. v

FigureZ represents, upon an enlarged scale, a section on line A B, iig.- 1; and

.Figurerepresenta upon an enlarged scale,- a ,section on--line C D, same figure.

To enable those skilled in the art' ton'hich my nventionb'elongsto lmalte and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail'.

In the drawingsA represents a section of one 'ofthe tapes vwhich support the hoops-B, the latter being passed through pockets C C, ivoven with the tapes, the pockets being upon the inner sdeof the tape,-vitl1 a space, a, left between them, as fully shown in the drawings. After the hoops haie all heen -passed through the supporting-tapes, they are-fastened in place, and to eaehsupportingtape, by means of the pecnliarly-formed4 metal clasps D. Clasps D are made with 'twol'flanges -b b, which projeet out o ver the edges of the pockets C C on the same line, so that when the lips o e are bent inunder the hoop in the space a, between the pockets,`tlie flanges. I) o are drawn down firmly upon the edges of the poelet's C C, thereby fastening the edges of the pocketsA on each side ofthe space a to the hoop A, while thelips e c securely fasten the metal clasps D to the hoop, all

as fully indicated in the drawings.. The metal ela'sps'D, when first made, have the lipsce formed at right angles, or nearly so, to the'baek of the clasps, whereby the lipspass down freely by the edgesof the hoop, after which they are bent` in under the hoop, as fully shown in fig. 3. This last operation maybe performed by means of'a pair of' hand-pliers, made for the purpose, lor in any other convenient manner. y By'my mede of fastening the hoops totbe tapes, the outsides d of the tapes are-free from any metal or other fastening, while the 'hoops are securely fastened to .the edges of -the'poeketsV onfench side of the open space a, thereby preventing' undue .wearing ofthe pockets by the lateral'novements ofthe hoops. y

I cio-not claim tbeheop-skirt fastening described and elaimed'in the patent of William E. Houston, dated May 2l, 1867; but having described my improved hoop-skirt, I' A, y

What I claim therein as new, and of-my invention, and 'desi'retoseeure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with Athe pockets() C and hoop B, the clasps D, provided with lips b b and c c, the former extending laterally upon and elasping the edges of the pochetsras shown in iig. 2, thelatter enclosing and clasping .the hoop, as shown Ain iig. 3.

DAVID H. FANNING. Witnesses: Tues.' H. Denen,

D. L. MILLER.'V 

